Introducing: Inside COP - the Official COP30 Podcast from Outrage + Optimism
Outrage + Optimism: The Climate Podcast
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🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 5 minutes
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Summary
Live from Belém… it’s Outrage + Optimism! (Or it will be.)
This year’s COP is one of the most significant in years, and we’ll be there with you every step of the way - charting the buildup, analysing events on the ground, and reflecting on the impacts that will be felt for decades to come.
We’re delighted to announce that we are the official COP30 podcast, and there’s nobody better than Christiana Figueres, Tom Rivett-Carnac and Paul Dickinson to tell you everything you need to know - alongside some very special guests.
Inside COP will bring you the voices of negotiators, COP30 leaders and communities from Brazil and beyond. And as the climate story of the year unfolds, we’ll be asking the hard questions, and ensuring you get the inside scoop on what’s really going on.
Episodes of Inside COP will be released in this feed - so if you’re not already, subscribe now and join us as we gear up for Belém. Plus, send us your questions, insights, hopes and concerns, so that you can help shape this vital conversation.
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Producer: Ben Weaver-Hincks
Video Producer: Caitlin Hanrahan
Exec Producer: Ellie Clifford
Commissioning Editor: Sarah Thomas
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, listeners to Outrage and Optimism. |
| 0:05.1 | It's Tom here. |
| 0:05.8 | I am together with Paul and Christiana, |
| 0:07.7 | and we have gotten together because we have a very special announcement |
| 0:10.9 | on what's to come on Outrage and Optimism for the rest of this year. |
| 0:14.0 | So we are very excited because drum roll, drum roll. |
| 0:21.6 | Outrage and optimism is launching the official COP 30 podcast just for you. |
| 0:28.6 | So in the course of the next couple of months ahead of the COP, |
| 0:31.6 | we're going to be putting out special episodes on a regular basis |
| 0:34.6 | that do a deep dive into what's really happening in the lead |
| 0:37.5 | up to this critical moment. We'll go behind the scenes, we'll talk to key players, but if you're |
| 0:42.0 | not that familiar with the weird world of cops, don't worry about it. We're going to take you |
| 0:46.0 | by the hand and show you really what happens to try to put these agreements together and deliver |
| 0:51.1 | these real breakthroughs. Once we get to the COP, we'll be doing daily reporting |
| 0:55.6 | from inside the venue, speaking to decision makers, helping you really understand what's going on there. |
| 1:01.2 | Both the political negotiations as well as what is lovingly called the action agenda, we're going to be |
| 1:08.9 | on the ground and we are going to be bringing you whether you're in Belim or not. We're going to be on the ground, and we are going to be bringing you, whether you |
| 1:12.8 | are in Belim or not, we're going to be bringing you the daily update from COP 30. |
| 1:19.6 | I've done this before, because I was actually with you both in Paris when the amazing thing |
| 1:24.1 | happened, but you were both working really hard and we weren't doing a podcast. But this time, the three of us will get to be in there during the actual cop whilst it's all really happening. It is very exciting. It is very exciting because this is such a consequential cop. I mean, listeners the podcast will know that this is one of the most important cops in recent years. This is an ambition cop. Countries need to come back to the table with more |
| 1:44.7 | ambition, but that's only one of the pieces that's going to happen. We're going to see stakeholders |
| 1:48.6 | of all kinds coming together to try to solve this crisis. And we will be there talking to people, |
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